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Week of January 30, 1994

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DISCLOSURE
Michael Crichton
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DISCLOSURE

by Michael Crichton · Knopf

5 wks at #1 · 2 on list

YA-Beautiful, bright, and talented Meredith Johnson arrives at Digital Communications Technology company to become the head of a division, a position that Tom Sanders thought was going to be his. Meredith, his former lover, invites him to her office after hours and attempts to seduce him. When he rejects her, she accuses him of sexual harassment. Tom hires Louise Fernandez to defend him and reverses the accusation to name Meredith as the aggressor. To this plot, Crichton adds computer-industry sabotage, corporate mergers, video-linkups, stock options, CD-ROM jargon, and even a trip on a virtual-reality simulator to help Tom save his reputation and career. YAs will love all the technology and the author's easy, readable style, but the graphic sex and obvious theme that harassment is power may make Disclosure.

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THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY
Robert James Waller
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THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY

by Robert James Waller · Warner

77 wks on list

Fall in love with one of the bestselling novels of all time -- the legendary love story that became a beloved film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. If you've ever experienced the one true love of your life, a love that for some reason could never be, you will understand why readers all over the world are so moved by this small, unknown first novel that they became a publishing phenomenon and #1 bestseller. The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, The Bridges of Madison County gives voice to the longings of men and women everywhere -- and shows us what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again.

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FATAL CURE
Robin Cook
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FATAL CURE

by Robin Cook · Putnam

1 wks on list

Leaving their urban hospital for a modern medical facility in Bartlet, Vermont, Doctors Angela and David Wilson begin to notice puzzling details in the deaths of several terminal patients there

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BAD LOVE
Jonathan Kellerman
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BAD LOVE

by Jonathan Kellerman · Bantam

2 wks on list

Child psychologist Alex Delaware returns in a story that begins with a childlike chant and finishes with Alex at the end of a chain of unexpected deaths

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HONOR BOUND
W.E.B. Griffin
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HONOR BOUND

by W.E.B. Griffin · Putnam

1 wks on list

As part of an American mission to sabotage Argentinean arms trading with the Nazis, a young U.S. Marine must deceive his own father, a powerful Argentinian known as "el Coronel." Reprint.

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THE CLIENT
John Grisham
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THE CLIENT

by John Grisham · Doubleday

46 wks on list

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A white-knuckle legal thriller that begins in a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, when two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the curb. . . . “The desire to find out what happens next keeps the reader turning the pages. Grisham is an absolute master of the chase story.”—The Washington Post Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally is a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer for all of four years. Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And Reggie will do anything to protect her client—even take a last, desperate gamble that could win Mark his freedom . . . or cost them both their lives.

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WITHOUT REMORSE
Tom Clancy
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WITHOUT REMORSE

by Tom Clancy · Putnam

23 wks on list

I Pentagon planlægges en aktion for at redde en gruppe amerikanere ud af en nordvietnamesisk krigsfangelejr, og Jack Kelly, vietnamveteran og specialuddannet flådeofficer, udses til opgaven. Han er imidlertid dybt involveret i en mere personlig redningsaktion

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NIGHTMARES & DREAMSCAPES
Stephen King
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NIGHTMARES & DREAMSCAPES

by Stephen King · Viking Press

16 wks on list

A 'bumper collection of short stories' (Sunday Telegraph} from the No. 1 bestselling master of the form, now with a stunning new cover look. The Stephen King Amusement Park - an unnerving experience, with rides every which way to hell . . . and a few to glory. A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. The Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. Meanwhile, the legend of Castle Rock returns . . . and grows on you. What does it all mean? What else could it mean? Stephen King is here with a powerful collection of stories - a vast, many-chambered cave of a volume. The long reach of Stephen King's imagination will take you on a roller coaster to places you've never been before. You will lose sleep. But Stephen King, writing to beat the devil, will do your dreaming for you. Stories include: -Dolan's Cadillac -The End of the Whole Mess -Suffer the Little Children -The Night Flier -Popsy -It Grows on You -Chattery Teeth -Dedication -The Moving Finger -Sneakers -You Know They Got a Hell of a Band -Home Delivery -Rainy Season -My Pretty Pony -Sorry, Right Number -The Ten O'Clock People -Crouch End -The House on Maple Street -The Fifth Quarter -The Doctor's Case -Umney's Last Case -Head Down -Brooklyn August

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THE HOPE
Herman Wouk
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GRAND PASSION
Jayne Ann Krentz
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GRAND PASSION

by Jayne Ann Krentz · Pocket

1 wks on list

"'Wait for me;' he said. 'When this is all over, I'll come for you.' Reva had fled the danger, left South America, longing for him, never believing he would make good his promise. But he had. Just when she thought she had her life in order, when she had found Bruce, the polished, sophisticated man she meant to marry, Jeff Corbett had walked back into her life. Tall, lean, hard, tough, he didn't mince words. She was his. He would never forget her rash, impulsive surrender. His lion like eyes commanded, compelled. Could she make him understand? She was her own woman. But how long could she resist his arrogant, urgent demands?" -- Back cover.

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MR. MURDER
Dean Koontz
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MR. MURDER

by Dean Koontz · Putnam

12 wks on list

A stranger breaks into Martin's House and Claims to be the real Martin Stillwater and says "You stole my wife, my life, and my children. I want them back. The madman wages a relentless and terrifying campaign to eliminate Marty and recapture the family.

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SMILLA'S SENSE OF SNOW
Peter Hoeg
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SMILLA'S SENSE OF SNOW

by Peter Hoeg · Farrar, Straus & Giroux

A Time Best Book of the Year · An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year · A People Best Book of the Year · Winner of the CWA Silver Dagger Award · A Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel First published in 1992, Peter Høeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow instantly became an international sensation. When caustic Smilla Jaspersen discovers that her neighbor--a neglected six-year-old boy, and possibly her only friend--has died in a tragic accident, a peculiar intuition tells her it was murder. Unpredictable to the last page, Smilla's Sense of Snow is one of the most beautifully written and original crime stories of our time, a new classic.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.